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St Patrick’s Day Bubbly Cocktails
Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with some Champagne or sparkling wine cocktails! St Patrick’s Day Cocktail 30ml Midori 25ml Irish Whiskey Champagne or sparkling wine Pour the fizz into a flute first, then add the midori and whiskey to get a green colour. Irish Lady 30ml Midori melon liqueur Champagne or sparkling wine 30ml orange juice Pour the fizz into a…
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Celebrate Easter at D&D London Restaurants
D&D London has created a cracking calendar of events to celebrate Easter at its London restaurants with #MarchMadness. Over the extended Easter weekend (Friday 24th – Monday 28th March) city-wide Easter egg hunt will see 40 chocolate eggs from Paul A Young hidden in D&D London restaurants across the capital. Each egg will contain a…
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English Sparkling Wine for Easter
Why not celebrate Easter and the start of Spring with a fresh and fruity English bubbly? It’s local, high quality and tastes great with your Easter dinner, picnics and chocolate eggs. English sparkling wine is made using the same method as Champagne and the quality is often considered on par with it’s French counterpart. Try asking at…
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Celebrity Interview: Michel Roux Jr
Michel Roux Jr is a French-English two-star Michelin chef at the London restaurant Le Gavroche, a classical French restaurant in Mayfair, London. He also owns two other restaurants in London, Roux at Parliament and Roux at The Landau at The Langham Hotel. Michel has made many TV appearances, judging and presenting including MasterChef, Great British…
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Pairing Italian Food with Sparkling Wine
Italian food is some of the best in the world and regularly eaten in many households. It’s always handy to have some bubbly to pair perfectly with your dishes! We’ve stuck mostly with Italian bubbly, but there’s also some to mixing and matching. You can find many of these in your local UK supermarket. Creamy Pasta Such…
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UK Sales of Sparkling Wine Hit Record £1 Billion
Sales of sparkling wine in the UK have reached £1 billion for the first time – and that’s not including Champagne sales. Retail sales of sparkling wine hit £709m, with on-trade sales (restaurants, bars, hotels etc) adding another £348m according to the Wine and Spirit Trade Association Market Report. ‘Sparkling wine’ refers to Prosecco, Cava, Crémant, English sparkling…
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Dublin’s First Bottomless Prosecco Brunch
The Exchequer Wine Bar in Ranelagh, Dublin has launched the ‘Bottomless Brunch’. Available every Saturday from 12-4pm, if you order one item off the brunch menu, you can also enjoy unlimited Prosecco refills for an extra 15 euros. This stylish wine bar serves some interesting bubbly, including Champagnes: De Castellane, Cattier and Béréche et Fils and others, as…
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De Castelnau Launches Rare Blanc de Blancs 2003 Vintage
Champagne de Castelnau have recently disgorged their 2003 vintage Blanc de Blancs which has spent 11 years on lees. There are only 11,000 bottles of this rare vintage, some of which will be available in the UK. The 2003 is considered a challenging vintage, with many houses opting not to declare it. This was partly…
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Digby English Sparkling Wine Team Up With Armit Wines
As the English sparkling wine industry continues to go from strength to strength. Digby Fine English, one of the newer labels on the market, having launched in 2013, are already making their mark in the sparkling wine world having been awarded the World Champion English Sparkling Wine with their 2009 Reserve Brut in the last Champagne & Sparkling…
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